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Wednesday, 6 April 2016

Cruz and Sanders win in Wisconsin primary

Killary and Donald lose out.

The
BBC mentions Bernie Sanders but only talks about Trump. The Guardian
celebrates Bernie

Wisconsin
primary results: Bernie Sanders and Ted Cruz win

Wisconsinites
stand to make history, and in many ways that was the literal
situation they found themselves in — with long lines lasting hours
for some. Both the Republican and Democratic front-runners, however,
were expected to falter as the challengers rose to the occasion.

With
7 percent of the precincts reporting, Sen. Ted Cruz was announced the
Republican winner, carrying 49.1 percent of the vote to Donald
Trump's 34.6 percent, and Ohio Gov. John Kasich's lagging 13.8
percent, according to Associated Press.

With
21 percent of the precincts reporting, Sen. Bernie Sanders won with
53.2 percent of the vote to Hillary Clinton's 46.6 percent.

"Let
me remind everybody that we've got a really important caucus here on
Saturday," Sanders said in his victory speech to a crowd in
Laramie, Wyoming. "With our victory tonight in Wisconsin, we
have now won seven out of the last eight caucuses and primaries, and
we have won almost all of them with overwhelming landslide numbers.
What momentum is about is that at this time in contemporary politics
when every major candidate has a Super PAC, we have said no to Super
PACs."

Sanders
added that Clinton was getting "a little nervous" about the
upcoming April 19 primary in New York, where she served as US
senator. Sanders was born in Brooklyn.

“I
am more and more convinced that our campaign is going to earn the
1,237 delegates needed to win the Republican nomination,” Cruz said
in his victory speech. “Either before Cleveland or at the
convention, together we will win the majority of the delegates and
together we will beat Hillary Clinton in November.”

Cruz
walks out with the 24 delegates awarded to the overall state winner,
but there are still 18 remaining to be distributed based on
congressional district vote wins, which Trump is likely to share in.

Sanders
garnered 29 delegates for winning the state, but will certainly share
with Clinton many of the 57 distributed proportionally by how the
race fares in the congressional districts. There are also 10
superdelegates to be won, though they are unbound.

Yet
another primary has tested the patience of voters, with some
Wisconsinites lining up for hours to cast their ballots. The longest
queue was in Green Bay at the University of Wisconsin, where brand
new voters waited to register in the same single-file as every
returning voter. Just two ballot boxes were in operation there.

According
to SMG Delta, the campaign to spend the most on the state primary was
Sen. Sanders who dropped $2.4 million on ads, compared to Hillary
Clinton who unloaded $931,000.

On
the Republican side, the biggest spenders weren't from any particular
campaign, but anti-Trump groups Our Principles PAC and the Club for
Growth, which together spent $2 million in advertising. Trump
campaigned in the state for a comparatively penny-pinching $500,000.

The
Republican favorite to win, Sen. Ted Cruz, along with supporting
external organizations kicked in a total $1.4 million. Ohio Gov. John
Kasich and his supporting groups threw in $970,000.Guardian coverage HERE